Nicolas George wrote: > No, the length of the string is hardly relevant, and when it is it is > not enough anyway.
@Nicolas, I think OP does not understand you - perhaps it is not worth the effort. My impression is that you refer to a string (properly) as sequence of bytes and other refer to it as number of chars, which is not consistant with utf. >From my work with UTF, it is possible but not satisfying to guess encoding. I wonder why no one suggested a kind of markup (xml) instead of byte delimiter. And regarding the mbox thing, well mbox was depreciated for many reasons. I guess if it was that good it wouldn't be depreciated. @OP, at some point of time everyone has to redesign and reimplement because technology evolves and all the tools listed can be updated to the new format. Recent example of redesign I worked with is gnupg - huge changes from v1.x to v2.1 regards
